Portal:Children's literature

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Arthur Conan Doyle
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  The Coral Island
  Robert Michael Ballantyne
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  Robinson Crusoe
  Daniel Defoe
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  The Princess and the Goblin
  George MacDonald
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  The Wind in the Willows
  Kenneth Grahame

Works by age

0–3

• Tommy Thumb's Song Book by Nurse Lovechild
• The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
• Nursery Rhymes

3+

• The Quangle Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear (1876)
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902)
• The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter (1906)
• The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)
• All other books by Beatrix Potter

5+

• The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1889)
• A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1846)
• Czech Folk Tales, edited and translated by Josef Baudiš (1917)
• Czechoslovak fairy tales retold by Parker Fillmore (1919)
• The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak fairy tales by Božena Němcová (1921)
• The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
• Five Nursery Tales in The Shoemaker's Apron by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1920)
• The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton (1910)
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837)
• The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens (1868)
• The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1918)
• Susan and the Mermaid by Pamela Colman Smith (1912)
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (1843)
• Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)
• A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (1822)

8+

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1883)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
• Aesop's Fables by Aesop (c. 550 BC)
• Air Service Boys over the Rhine (1919)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
  • Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871)
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
• Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc (1907)
• Betty Gordon in Washington (1920)
  • Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil (1920)
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
• The Bobbsey Twins (1904)
  • The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore (1907)
  • The Bobbsey Twins at Home (1916)
  • The Bobbsey Twins in Washington (1919)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
• The Boys of Columbia High on the River (1911)
• Boys of the Fort (1901)
• Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm (1916)
• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (1887)
• Cautionary Tales for Children
• A Christmas Carol
• Dick Hamilton's Fortune (1909)
• Emily of New Moon (1923)
• Explorers of the Dawn (1922)
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)
• Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
• A Little Princess by Frances H. Burnett (1905)
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
• The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
• Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)
• Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed (1907; nonfiction)
• Original Stories from Real Life by Mary Wollstonecraft (1788)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1911)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1881)
• The Princess and the Goblin
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1884)
  • Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope Hawkins (1898)
• Ralph of the Roundhouse (1906)
  • Ralph in the Switch Tower (1907)
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1903)
• Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg (1936)
• The Rover Boys at School (1899)
  • The Rover Boys on the Ocean (1899)
  • The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes (1901)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1909)
• The Shoemaker's Apron by Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1920)
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1920)
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1922)
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (1899)
• Tales from Shakspeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (1807)
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
  • The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)
  • The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  • The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
  • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1916)
  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919)
  • Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1919-20)
  • Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1921)
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)
  • Greenmantle by John Buchan (1916)
  • Mr Standfast by John Buchan (1919)
• Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle (1910)
  • Tom Swift and His Airship (1910)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin (n.d.) by anonymous
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

12+

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne (1869)
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
• The Children of the New Forest by Captain Frederick Marryat (1847)
• Christmas Stories by Georgene Faulkner (1916)
• The Coral Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1857)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912)
• The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's by Talbot Baines Reed (1881)
• The Grandmother by Božena Němcová (1891)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (1907)
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1857)
• Waverley by Walter Scott (1814)
• White Fang by Jack London (1906)

About

• "Literature for Children," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Children's Literature," by David A. Modell in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

See also

• Portal:Children
• Portal:Children's education
• Portal:Children's fairy tales
• Portal:Children's poetry
• Portal:Newbery Medal
• Portal:Stratemeyer Syndicate

References

• Eccleshare, Julia (2009). 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. ABC Books. ISBN 9780733325625. 
• Silvey, Anita (2005). 100 Best Books for Children. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618618774. 
• Kid's Reading List, 2011, <http://www.oprah.com/packages/kid-reading-list.html>. 
• Classic Reading Lists, The Book Report, Inc, 2011, <http://www.kidsreads.com/lists/classic-lists.asp>.